Clinical Policy: Neuroimaging and Decisionmaking in Adult Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Acute Setting

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Jagoda, Andy S ^a   Bazarian, Jeffrey J ^a   Bruns Jr , John J ^a   Cantrill, Stephen V ^a   Gean, Alisa D ^a   Howard, Patricia Kunz ^a   Ghajar, Jamshid ^a   Riggio, Silvana ^a   Wright, David W ^a   Wears, Robert L ^a   Bakshy, Aric ^a   Burgess, Paula ^a   Wald, Marlena M ^a   Whitson, Rhonda R ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61649109012     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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